“‘Ride On’ is about young riders and horses and also Star Trek,” Hicks said. “So, I was a horse crazy girl in my younger years. I loved horses. I rode constantly. I would go and hang out at the barn with other young women who rode, and one boy, there was one boy who rode at the stables that I rode at when I was a young teen. And ‘Ride On,’ it’s not a memoir. There is nothing in this book that is completely true to events that happened to me, but I would consider it emotionally true. So, it is based on, a little bit based on my experiences being this young, horse crazy girl, and also based on my experience of having this one thing in my life that I loved.”
Regarding her equine characters, Hicks said “horses are really hard to draw. They are complicated and they’re difficult to draw. But I had this background where I had ridden a ton in my younger years. And then I’d drawn horses a ton when I was much younger. So, I had this familiarity with horse anatomy and I was like, well, if no one else is going to draw this book, then I guess I may as well. So yeah. Then I just kind of dove into it.”
You can read more from Hicks, and check out early artwork at ComicBook.com, as well as more art on her Twitter account here, and here.
